Generation of angiotensins in cultured pheochromocytoma cells.

abstract：:The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that administration of low extracellular levels of magnesium ions ([Mg(2+)](o)) to primary cultured cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells will cause lipid peroxidation, degradation of IkappaB-alpha, and activation of nuclear transcription factor kappa B (NF-kappaB)...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Altura BM,Gebrewold A,Zhang A,Altura BT

更新日期：2003-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Some granule neurons naturally undergo apoptosis in the external granular layer (EGL) of the postnatally developing rat cerebellum. We analyzed the developmental stage-specificity of this apoptosis using double staining by in situ nick end labeling and immunohistochemistry against three proteins expressed at specific ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tanaka M,Marunouchi T

更新日期：1998-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported here the functional characteristics of Na+ -dependent neutral amino acid transport system A in normal human astrocytes and its adaptive regulation, a process in which amino acid starvation induces the transport activity. Reverse transcription-PCR revealed that the system A transporter subtype, SNAT2/ATA2, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tanaka K,Yamamoto A,Fujita T

更新日期：2005-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the hairless (hr) gene of mice result in hair follicle and other epithelial defects. The hr gene is expressed at high levels in the brain where it probably participates in the survival and maintenance of some neuronal populations, but whether it also supports glial populations of the central nervous syste...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： San Jose I,García-Atares N,Pelaez B,Cabo R,Esteban I,Vega JA,Represa J

更新日期：2001-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain (NP) is highly disabling, responds poorly to pharmacological treatment, and represents a significant cause of decreased quality of life in patients suffering from spinal cord injury (SCI). In recent years, cell therapy with autologous mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) has been considered as a potential...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Vaquero J,Zurita M,Rico MA,Aguayo C,Fernández C,Gutiérrez R,Rodríguez-Boto G,Saab A,Hassan R,Ortega C

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the effect of wnt-3a on motor nerve function and its specific molecular mechanisms after spinal cord injury (SCI). This study demonstrates that the downregulated expression levels of caspases-3, caspases-9 and chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG) proteins and number of proportion of transferas...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gao K,Niu J,Dang X

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that there is an up-regulation of the NR2B gene expression in the adult cortex and cultured fetal cortical neurons of mice following chronic ethanol treatment due to demethylation of cytosine residues in the NR2B gene CpG island. In the present study, we investigated the methylation pattern...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ravindran CR,Ticku MK

更新日期：2005-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:As overweight and obesity are a growing problem in industrialized societies, they become a main focus of many studies. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is an association between the occurrence of polymorphisms in serotonin-related genes and the prevalence of depressive symptoms in obese patients. T...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bieliński M,Tomaszewska M,Jaracz M,Pulkowska-Ulfig J,Długosz D,Sikora M,Tretyn A,Kamińska A,Junik R,Borkowska A

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of lateral (visceral) and medial (gustatory) parabrachial nucleus (PBN) lesions on the suppression of milk intake induced with cholecystokinin (CCK) in 24 h food-deprived rats. Irrespective of CCK dose, each type of PBN lesion significantly elevated the consumption of milk. Neither medial nor la...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Trifunovic R,Reilly S

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral injections of the GABA(A) agonist muscimol into the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) disrupt satiety and induce strong ingestion of water and 0.3M NaCl in fluid-replete rats by mechanisms not completely clear. In the present study, we investigated the effects of the blockade of central muscarinic choliner...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Asnar DS,Roncari CF,De Luca LA Jr,de Paula PM,Colombari DS,Menani JV

更新日期：2013-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:TRPA1 agonists cinnamaldehyde (CA) and mustard oil (allyl isothiocyanate=AITC) induce heat hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia in human skin, and sensitize responses of spinal and trigeminal dorsal horn neurons to noxious skin heating in rats. TRPA1 is also implicated in cold nociception. We presently used behaviora...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tsagareli MG,Tsiklauri N,Zanotto KL,Carstens MI,Klein AH,Sawyer CM,Gurtskaia G,Abzianidze E,Carstens E

更新日期：2010-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:With the use of an antiserum against human apelin-36, apelin-immunoreactivity (irAP) was detected in neurons and cell processes of the supraoptic nucleus (SO), paraventricular nucleus (PVH), accessory neurosecretory nuclei (Acc) and suprachiasmatic nucleus. Strongly labeled cells/processes were noted in the internal l...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Brailoiu GC,Dun SL,Yang J,Ohsawa M,Chang JK,Dun NJ

更新日期：2002-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we have demonstrated that pressure-ejected application of angiotensin II and losartan, an angiotensin AT1 receptor antagonist, onto some neurons in the anterior hypothalamic area (AHA) of the rat increases and decreases, respectively, the basal firing rate of the neurons. To investigate possible participat...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hagiwara Y,Kubo T

更新日期：2007-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is an important metabolic factor controlling feeding behavior. There is evidence that physiologically relevant glucose sensors reside in the caudal hindbrain. The area postrema (AP) in particular, which has been characterized as a receptive site for the anorectic hormone amylin, may monitor blood glucose level...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Riediger T,Schmid HA,Lutz TA,Simon E

更新日期：2002-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotics participate actively in the neuropsychiatric disorders. However, their roles on ischemic stroke remain unclear. This study aims to determine whether Clostridium butyricum (C. butyricum) could attenuate cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and its possible mechanisms. Male ICR mice were intragastricall...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sun J,Ling Z,Wang F,Chen W,Li H,Jin J,Zhang H,Pang M,Yu J,Liu J

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally assumed that the majority of substance P (SP)-containing afferents are also immunoreactive for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). In order to determine whether this is also the case in articular afferents where the contents of these peptides are low, we carried out a double labeling study using Fa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tamura R,Hanesch U,Schmidt RF,Kumazawa T,Mizumura K

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular recordings were made from astrocytes of the hippocampal CA1 region in rat slice preparations. A single stimulus at the Schaffer collaterals with high intensities (>/=10 V), but not low intensities (<10 V), induced a slow depolarization similar to the evoked postsynaptic potentials observed in hippocampal...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hattori G,Tanaka E,Yokomizo Y,Shigemori M,Higashi H

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A free radical scavenger edaravone is clinically used in Japan for acute stroke, and several basic researches have carefully examined the mechanisms of edaravone's protective effects. However, its actions on pro-inflammatory responses under stroke are still understudied. In this study, we subjected adult male Sprague-...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fujiwara N,Som AT,Pham LD,Lee BJ,Mandeville ET,Lo EH,Arai K

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory learning induces frequency-specific plasticity in the auditory cortex. Both the auditory cortex and thalamus are involved in the cortical plasticity; however, the precise role of the intracortical circuity remains unclear until the contributions of the thalamocortical inputs are controlled. Here, we induced c...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kong L,Wang S,Liu X,Li L,Zeeman M,Yan J

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) lesions did not show increased sleep after triazolam (TRZ) injections at any dose from 0.2 to 1.6 mg/kg, whereas 0.4 mg/kg TRZ given intact rats in the middle of their activity phase significantly increased sleep. Across SCN-lesioned and intact rats, the amount of sleep before an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Edgar DM,Seidel WF,Martin CE,Sayeski PP,Dement WC

更新日期：1991-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the extracellular concentration of glutamate and taurine in the frontal cortex of freely-moving pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) kindled rats using an in vivo microdialysis. A significant and sustained increase in the glutamate level was observed in the kindled rats, in contrast, a slight and delayed increase was o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Li Z,Yamamoto Y,Morimoto T,Ono J,Okada S,Yamatodani A

更新日期：2000-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking is highly addictive and modern genetic research has identified robust genetic influences on nicotine dependence. An important step in translating these genetic findings to clinical practice is identifying the genetic factors affecting smoking cessation in order to enhance current smoking cessation tr...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chen LS,Horton A,Bierut L

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Sendai, a paramyxovirus, on the functional activity of 3 cell types, have been studied in vitro to establish whether a virus alone can cause pathophysiological changes. Neuronal cells are depolarized and suffer a loss of excitability which was attributed to an increase in membrane conductance. Spontaneo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Forda SR,Gillies G,Kelly JS,Micklem KJ,Pasternak CA

更新日期：1982-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of intravenous guanethidine for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome type I is of variable efficacy. Guanethidine injection is painful, so local anaesthetic is co-administered. We hypothesize that local anaesthetic inhibits uptake of guanethidine and hence reduces its efficacy. In this study we have exa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Joyce PI,Atcheson R,Marcus RJ,Heffernan AM,Rowbotham DJ,Lambert DG

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the patterns of activation of the P600 waveform of the event-related potentials (ERP), applying principal component analysis (PCA) and repeated measures ANOVA, and whether these patterns are RF and gender dependent. The ERPs of thirty-nine healthy subjects (20 male and 19 fe...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Maganioti AE,Hountala CD,Papageorgiou CC,Kyprianou MA,Rabavilas AD,Capsalis CN

更新日期：2010-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of Ca2+ homeostasis have been reported for both fibroblasts and T-lymphocytes of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Considering the importance of K+ conductances for the cellular Ca2+ regulation and the recently reported absence of a K+ channel in Alzheimer fibroblasts, we investigated K+ currents in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cohen CD,Vollmayr B,Aldenhoff JB

更新日期：1996-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo formation of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP(+)) in the striatum, and dopaminergic neurotoxicity following systemic administration of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) in the presence and absence of calcium channel agonist (+/-)-Bay K8644 were analyzed in Balb/c mice. We used HPLC-photod...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Samantaray S,Mohanakumar KP

更新日期：2003-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional neuroimaging suggests asymmetries of memory encoding and retrieval in the prefrontal lobes, but different hypotheses have been presented concerning the nature of prefrontal hemispheric specialization. We studied an associative memory task involving pairs of Kanji (Chinese) pictographs and unfamiliar abstrac...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Epstein CM,Sekino M,Yamaguchi K,Kamiya S,Ueno S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the whole-cell recording technique the Na+ current in cultured melanotrophs of the adult rat pituitary was studied. The Na+ current was eliminated by 1 microM TTX and its equilibrium potential confirmed that it was carried predominantly by Na+. The activation threshold was near -40 mV and half-maximal activat...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kehl SJ

更新日期：1994-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that the inhibition of histone deacetylases (HDACs) induces the differentiation of diverse cancer and stem cells, which suggests HDAC inhibitors may be good candidates for the induction of stem cell differentiation. In this study, we investigated the effects of a HDAC inhibitor, valproic acid...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jeong SG,Ohn T,Kim SH,Cho GW

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00